18 No Fail Pillow Combos

I restyle our pillows more often than Trump applies his spray tan. I'm actually not kidding. I switch mine around or add some pillows at least once a week, and a spray tan lasts at most 6 days – I should know. The Donald and I could easily go orange-neck to orange-neck on how many spray-tans we've had. ALSO, to really hit the metaphor home, much like a spray tan for your body, a good pillow restyling can completely refresh and renew your space. It takes just a few minutes, but you (and your space) will instantly feel pulled together, prettier and feel five pounds lighter.

Here are our easy, tried and true steps to styling your pillows together – with a big old roundup of our some guaranteed-to-look-beautiful combinations at the end.

Nicolette Mason's Weekend Makeover

1. Pick a color palette, then purchase and style within that palette. Leave room for neutrals and deeper/lighter tones of your palette. If you do this you are already 15 steps closer to success. Don't skip this step or you will fail.

My House Tour with Good Housekeeping

How To Choose, Frame, and Hang an Art Collection

2. Vary the sizes of pillows – Buy large square, medium and smaller rectangles (this is key) and layer it up. Like so:

My Guest Room/Office Update

This is a slightly more formal styling – Brady taught me this, and we use it when we want things to look less lived in, more polished.

3. If you are mixing solids then go for variety of textures or some pillows with interesting details – like above. I have suede, stitching, a raw hem, and denim all on one bench and they look simple and lovely together.

Floral Glam Nursery Reveal

4. Balance out colors evenly on the sofa or bench – see how both greens flank the bench? If they were both on the same side it would feel unbalanced. So make sure your colors and pillows are peppered around evenly.

For my nursery I wanted it to be more tonal and quiet, like so:

Elliot's Nursery Reveal

But you see there is still a lot of variety in tone, texture and shape.

4. Vary the scale of the patterns – make sure that they are both large and small scale patterns, because if they get too close then they can be competing and create visual chaos.

My Old Living Room

Now that you know what to do you should be golden. Congrats you've finished our pillow styling course. Remember that video I made on that 4 years ago? It's an oldie but a goodie.

BUT just in case you want to take all the thought/work out of your weekend, here are 18 pillow combinations that we think look pretty darn great together.

1. Embroidered Diamond Pillow, Indigo Ikat Pillow, Navy & Cream Lumbar Pillow | 2. Tasseled Camel Pillow, Velvet Lumbar Pillow, Jute Braid Pillow | 3. Pink Geometric Pillow, Pink Silk Lumbar Pillow, Printed Linen Pillow 4. | Blue Potato Print Pillow, Textured White Lumbar Pillow, Tribal Ikat Pillow | 5. Geometric Motif Pillow, Pompom Pillow, Tasseled Lumbar Pillow | 6. Deco Fan Pillow, Tasseled Lumbar Pillow, Leopard Velvet Pillow | 7. Watercolor Printed Pillow, Chunky Quilted Red Lumbar Pillow, Red & White Print Pillow | 8. Hand-spun Silk Lumbar Pillow, Pom Pom Embroidered Pillow, Beige Print Pillow | 9. Triangle Patterned Lumbar Pillow, Pom Pom Tasseled Pillow, Zapotec Woven Pillow | 10. Golden Velvet Pillow, Cobalt Pattern Pillow, Multi-Colored Lumbar Pillow | 11. Blu Dot Pillow, Blue Ikat Lumbar Pillow, Block Print Pillow | 12. Buffalo Plaid Pillow, Abstract Lumbar Pillow, Mongolian Lamb Pillow | 13. Patterned Pillow, Navy Leather Pillow, Dhurrie Striped Pillow | 14. Hand-Spun Gray Silk Pillow, Pom Pom Pillow, Painted Stripe Pillow | 15. Tasseled Corner Pillow, Golden Boucle Pillow, Textured Lumbar Pillow | 16. White Grid Pillow, Square Pattern Pillow, Kilim Pillow | 17. Lake Motif Pillow, Gray Rectangle Pillow, Silver Gray Lumbar Pillow | 18. Linen Stripe Pillow, Mini Triangles Lumbar Pillow, Floral Pillow

I honestly have so many favorites it's like choosing children. In this case I have 9 children. Here they are listed in no particular order: #1, #4, #5, #8, #9, #12, #13, #18. But even pairing it back to that was really hard.

Which one is your favorite?? HURRY!!!!

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